The Importance of Propulsion in Swimming

Where is the center of buoyancy and the center of mass in a good swimming position with no sinking legs? Yeah, there'd be pretty much right aligned. And where on the body would that be roughly? Well, as I was saying, if your arms are down by your side, it's going to be right around your belly button. Okay, so to the head. Good. Next, let's discuss propulsion. How that is important in biomechanics. Yep. So it's really in combination with drag, which I'm sure we'll talk about in a second. Is really the whole key thing that we're looking at generating to maximize your performance.

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